Posted on 11/10/2023 12:07:26 PM PST by nickcarraway
Sometimes, quirky superstitions can pay off in a big way, like they did for Orange County resident Daniel Peramaki. Peramaki won a staggering $5 million top prize on a Neon Cash Party California Lottery Scratchers game.
Peramaki, who considers himself the "king of the $20 Scratchers," meticulously chose ticket numbers seven, eight, or nine from newly opened packs, with his winning ticket turning out to be number seven. Superstitious as ever, he refrained from scratching the ticket immediately, waiting until midnight to unveil the life-changing prize.
"I thought, ‘no way!’ I honestly thought I scratched it wrong. I was in shock for probably the whole day. I didn’t sleep that night," shared Peramaki. Despite initially scratching 24 dollar signs on the ticket without success, he clinched victory on the 25th and final square.
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Good strategy…except most tickets are sold in machines these days. Circle K sells them over the counter but no clerk has the time to look through the pack of tickets to find certain sequential numbers. Somebody must be hooking him up.
Superstition ain’t the way.
never knew you could ask for specific numbered scratch off ticket
So that’s how you do it! Ima go get me a bunch of them there tickets now!
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